7 days to see 13 films

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/22/51824/ In addition to their annual San Diego Latino Film Festival and the fine lineup of films Lisa Franek at the Digital Gym books each week, the Media Arts Center San Diego will occasionally surprise us with a week-long mini-festival. …

But hey, everybody else is having fun with it, so...

Yeah, yeah, people have seen Filner and Goldsmith together in the same room. But I still like this notion. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/22/51821/ Yes, yes, your first thought is, "Wait a second, Lickona. You've got Filner in the role of the Narrator, which …

Dabblers need not click

Am I the only one who sees red over this ad that appeared in the June 9, 1933 edition of The Film Daily? http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/22/51801/ One out of three ain't bad, and while they pegged Capra's punim, look how they make …

In which my parents escort me to my first X-rated movie.

Who among us can claim that their parents took them to their first X-rated movie? Mom and Dad probably thought Midnight Cowboy was a sequel to True Grit. It took some work, but they eventually agreed to take their 13-year-old …

When it came time to finally force the digital conversion down exhibitor’s throats, no one bothered to ask drive-in owners to open wide and say, “Aaah.” 35mm prints for theatrical exhibition are becoming scarcer than cue marks. According to Honda, …

Cinephilia is a crime punishable in most states!

I was sitting in the basement last week watching a beautiful 16mm dye-transfer print of Otto Preminger's Forever Amber. It wasn't until I got up to change reels, that I noticed a crime had been committed. Reel 3 was missing …

Why was I reading a listicle at Cracked.com? No idea. But I liked what I read there.

I mean, "13 Photos That Shatter Your Image of Famous People (Part 2)"? Really? Didn't I have something better to do, like blog here at The Big Screen? Yes, yes I did. But first, it's sharing time. Do you remember …

Everything you need to know about the star of The Spectacular Now, currently playing at a theatre near you, is contained in the interview. I had a ball talking with the 26-year-old actor when he came to San Diego last …

While plowing through e-stacks of TV Radio Mirror I happened across this ad buried in the back pages of the February, 1963 edition. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/19/51536/ Look, it's early on a Monday morning and this thing has given me a case of …

http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/18/51509/ It's a cynical Sunday morning, isn't it? Scotland Yard has announced that they have new information regarding the death of Princess Diana. They won't reveal their findings, but what are they going to tell us? It was a hoax: …

Remember when I said that movies weren't driving the culture any more? You know what I mean - they're not the subject of the national conversation. Christopher Nolan basically made the Occupy movement into domestic terrorists in The Dark Knight …

Actor to put in personal appearance tonight at Arclight La Jolla & Landmark Hillcrest

Here is your chance to meet Miles Teller, star of Project X, 21 & Over, and, starting today, The Spectacular Now. Miles will be on hand to answer questions after the 6:25pm showing of TSN at ArcLight La Jolla. He'll …

It's been almost 14 years. Enough time has passed. Let's laugh about it. I arrived in San Diego on January 15, 2000 to assume the position of inaugural film curator at the Museum of Photographic Arts. A brand-spanking new, million …

"Women are complicated. I don't have to tell you that."

So what if New York Magazine got the full-body tattoo shots? We got the feminist musings. In a World... tells the story of Carol, the daughter of a movie trailer narrator who is trying to follow her father into the …

For a wizened, pixel-loathing curmudgeon like me, it doesn't get much better. The collection of The Media History Digital Library is now ours for the clicking. That means decades of Variety, Moving Picture World, Photoplay, The Hollywood Reporter, Picture Play …

What would have happened if Rita Hayworth had carried on a torrid love affair with Howard Hughes? It certainly would have amounted to something a lot more lively than the last hour of The Barefoot Contessa. For it's first third, …

When was the last time Woody Allen acted in a film that he didn't direct? If you guessed Antz (like me), than we'd both be wrong. Did Alfonso Arau's Picking Up the Pieces even receive a theatrical release? According to …

Lovelace tats a tale of humiliation and degradation within the early days of the porn industry. This isn't the biopic originally intended as a comeback vehicle for Lindsay Lohan. The media circus that is Lohan's life was cited as the …

It's been a long standing dream to have a blurb from of one of my reviews appear on a movie poster. It's not as though I haven't given the studios ample opportunity. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/12/51132/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/12/51133/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/12/51134/ http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/aug/12/51135/ The era of physical …

Filmmaker Charles Shaw explores the lives of the "plastic people" of the Tijuana River canal.

San Francisco-based writer and filmmaker Charles Shaw just released an updated preview for his pending documentary Exile Nation: The Plastic People, a look at the lives of the deportees who live in squalor in the Tijuana River canal a.k.a “el …